| Contents | Dirigere et sanctificare Direct and Sanctify This Day |
Cotidiana |
This prayer appears in the office of Prime in the Roman Breviary. In the Liturgia Horarum it is found at Lauds for Monday of the third week of the Psalter. It comes from the early centuries of our faith.
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| DIRIGERE et sanctificare, regere et gubernare dignare, Domine Deus, Rex caeli et terrae, hodie corda et corpora nostra, sensus, sermones et actus nostros in lege tua et in operibus mandatorum tuorum; ut hic et in aeternum, te auxiliante, salvi et liberi esse mereamur, Salvator mundi: Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen. | O LORD GOD, King of heaven and earth, may it please Thee this day to order and to hallow, to rule and to govern our hearts and our bodies, our thoughts, our words and our works, according to Thy law and in the doing of Thy commandments, that we, being helped by Thee, may here and hereafter worthily be saved and delivered by Thee, O Savior of the world, who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. |
| From the Liturgia Horarum. See also the Roman Breviary, the Raccolta #108, & Liturgical Prayer, Its History & Spirit, Fernand Cabrol, OSB, P.J. Kenedy & Sons. 1921, p145. |
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